by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2019 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Every few months I’ll be reading something and I’ll have this full stop epiphany moment where I’ll say to myself… Somebody just made this up and wrote it down. And I almost feel a bit betrayed for a second and then I immediately think… I...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 6, 2018 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
You know what the very best cure for a NaNoWriMo hangover is? Hair of the dog! Just keep on writing! But sometimes that’s not always so easy, especially if you’re feeling a bit burned out and missing all the motivation and fun of the big NaNoWriMo event....
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 26, 2018 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
My fellow Wrimos, November ends very soon. There are mere days left in NaNoWriMo. Some of you are still typing away, frantically trying to reach your writing goals and I am right there with you, trying to get as many words down between now and then to get there (at...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 12, 2018 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“They are making me feel bad,” my five-year old said, holding back tears. She glared across the playground where half a dozen kids were scrambling up the brand new climbing rope mountain like monkeys. “They’re making it look like it’s...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 3, 2018 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
You ever see one of those really pretty bullet journal pages and wish you had something like that for tracking progress but have absolutely no artistic ability? I was having that very feeling when I decided to make this cool NaNoWriMo 2018 word count coloring...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
